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Professor Mariano Sana publishes in Population Studies and PLOS ONE.

Oct. 8, 2015—Sana, Mariano, Guy Stecklov, and Alexander A. Weinreb. 2016. “Do survey interviewers really have to be strangers?” Forthcoming in Population Studies. Stecklov, Guy, Alexander A. Weinreb, and Mariano Sana. 2015. “Family Planning for Strangers: An Experiment on the Validity of Reported Contraceptive Use.” PLOS ONE 10(8):e0136972.

Holly McCammon’s undergraduate research team was chosen as one of the winners of the 2015 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair. Meredith Compton (Political Science & Medicine, Health, and Society major) and Jacqueline Scott (Sociology & American Studies major) won top recognition for their research, “The ABC’s of Feminist Litigation Arguments, Briefs, and Counsel.”

Sep. 28, 2015—

Dan Cornfield comments about “automotive workers and the American Dream” in a New York Times article (September 24, 2015) about a recent UAW victory in Piedmont, Alabama.

Sep. 25, 2015—

Kate Pride Brown, PhDVanderbilt Department of Sociology Colloquium Wednesday, September 23, 2015 -3:30pm

Sep. 24, 2015—Speaker: Kate Pride Brown, PhD Talk Title: “A Tale of Two Lakes: Transnational Activism and Perceived Possibility” Talk Date: September 23, 2015 Talk Location: Garland Hall 209

Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ColloquiumFriday, September 18th, 2015- 12:00 pm Garland Hall 209

Sep. 18, 2015—Speaker: Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Talk date: Friday, September 18th, 2015-12:00 pm Talk title: “Precarious Lives: Insecurity, Exclusion and Well-Being in Post-Industrial Societies” Talk location: Garland Hall 209

Professor Holly McCammon and graduate students, Allison McGrath and Megan Robinson (Sociology) and Ashley Dixon (Peabody), gave a Plenary presentation at the ASA’s Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop in Chicago, Illinois.

Sep. 2, 2015—Their paper was presented by Allison McGrath and titled, “Targeting Culture: Feminist Activism and Sexism in Law School Education.” http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/cbsm-workshop/agenda.aspx

Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville

Aug. 25, 2015—Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville. By: Dan Cornfield

Professor Dan Cornfield's Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Princeton University Press) has just been published.

Aug. 25, 2015—Professor Dan Cornfield’s Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Princeton University Press) has just been published. Based on in-depth interviews with 75 Nashville music professionals, Cornfield offers a new sociological theory of “artist activism” in recreating artist community for our contemporary era of indie art-making and precarious employment.

Professor Evelyn Patterson and Professor Christopher Wildeman publish in Social Science Research.

Jul. 28, 2015—Professor Evelyn Patterson and Professor Christopher Wildeman published “Mass imprisonment and the life course revisited: Cumulative years spent imprisoned and marked for working-age black and white men” in Social Science Research.

Professor Lijun Song publishes in Social Science & Medicine.

Jul. 28, 2015—Professor Lijun Song publishes “Does Knowing People in the Positional Hierarchy Protect or Hurt? Social Capital, Comparative Reference Group, and Depression in Two Societies” in Social Science & Medicine.

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